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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: knews bug
Date: 15 Oct 1996 02:06:11 +0100
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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Sender: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk
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X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8
Hmm, it seems I've found my knews bug ! If you set postingAgent to
use the inews program that comes with inn-1.4 (something that you
have to do in order to lose the "too much quoted text" errors that
the port of knews produces), inews (-h) fails to parse the passed
headers, as the blank line between the header and body contains
a "\r" !
How interresting ! Perhaps this is why knews postings screw up
their threading too ! Maybe the other header lines are getting
mangled because of this.
I've set up my external inews program with the following, we'll see
if it helps !
#! /bin/sh
sed 's/^M$//' | /usr/local/news/bin/inews "$@"
(note, the ^M is a *real* ctrl-m, not the fake that I've written)
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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